Windows AppFabric Cache API

A couple of years ago we wrote an article about the different ways of accessing SharePoint list items and leveraging enterprise cache in the process: http://www.loisandclark.eu/Pages/Velocity.aspx/ . As it turns out, the contents of the article are still very actual, but the Enterprise cache sample code for the Windows AppFabric Cache (which was called Velocity at the time) needs an update, although the process didn’t actually change that much.

First of all, don’t create any secondaries anymore when creating a new cache on a single server. Instead, do this:

new-cache -CacheName myCache -Secondaries 0

Adding references to the AppFabric caching assemblies is different too: